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Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for July 2025. Read about Syrian carrots and the origins of the name Gingidia, updates from the NZPCN President, a third location for Apopellia endiviifolia in New Zealand, helping to improve Wikipedia entries for our native species, the John Child Bryophyte and Lichen Workshop, the upcoming publication of a new book “Hinewai Reflections” featuring the artwork of Hugh Wilson, the Petals and Threads Exhibition, Auction and Workshops, a wasp… More

Author: NZPCN; Philip Smith; Jesse Bythell; Marley Ford; Heidi Meudt; Siobhan Leachman; Christine Richardson; Sophie Sparrow; Allison Knight; Maia Mistral-Armour;

Date: 29/07/2025

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for June 2025. Read about Asplenium obtusatum near Porirua, the 2025 David Given Threatened Plant Scholarship, video of karaka bearing fruit wanted, the 2025 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Otari-Wilton’s Bush, the annual Iwitahi Native Orchid Reserve working bee, a scam/spam email alert, A Forest & Bird August bush ramble in Northland, the 2025 John Child Bryophyte and Lichen Workshop and upcoming events.

Author: NZPCN; Robyn Smith, Alex Fergus; Susanne Krauss; Sophie Sparrow; Heidi Meudt; Siobhan Leachman; Christine Richardson; Toby Marris; Roslyn Norrie; Allison Knight; Maia Mistral-Armour;

Date: 25/06/2025

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for May 2025. Read about Lake Ohia Pimelea orthia subsp. orthia population update, Alsophila dealbata name having priority over Alsophila tricolor, a Raukumara hikoi, NZPCN 2025 AGM and 2026 and 2027 conference dates, the discovery of a second population of Dictyomeridium neureuterae, regional botanical society journal and newsletter articles on the NZPCN website, the 2025 David Given Threatened Plant Scholarship, Department of Botany… More

Author: NZPCN; Bill Campbell; Peter J. de Lange; Nadine McKinnon; Alex Fergus; Megan Ireland; Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls; Andrew J. Marshall; Melissa Hutchison; Kate Bonne;

Date: 27/05/2025

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for April 2025. Read about a new population of Pimelea orthia subsp. orthia located, new locations for the colonising cress Rorippa laciniata, misconceptions around moss identification, the Loder Cup 2025 and upcoming events.

Author: NZPCN; Bill Campbell; Marley Ford; Liadan Dickie;

Date: 25/04/2025

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for March 2025. Read about a new record for Northland of Hydrocotyle hydrophila, update to the New Zealand Threat Classification System Vascular Plants 2023 assessment, a podcast recording with Dr Hugh Wilson about Hinewai Reserve, NZPCN website taxonomy updates, the rediscovery of the lichen Pyrenula moniliformis, QEII National Trust Central and South Canterbury Regional Representative job vacancies and upcoming events.

Author: NZPCN; Marley Ford; Peter J. de Lange; Dr Adam Forbes; Alex Fergus; Andrew J. Marshall;

Date: 29/03/2025

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for February 2025. Read about Greater Wellington’s cutting edge innovation to protect native orchids, plant of the month Microtis oligantha, the first record of the invasive moss Fissidens taxifolius in Canterbury, ten online contributions you can make to the the biodiversity and open science communities, a recent assessment of the phenological phases of Exocarpos bidwillii, the brght future for the endangered Olearia gardneri and upcoming… More

Author: NZPCN; Grace Drysdale-Dunn; Bill Campbell; Liadan Dickie; Heidi M. Meudt; Siobhan Leachman; Duncan Cunningham; Department of Conservation;

Date: 26/02/2025

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for December 2024. Read about the 2024 year in review, an addition to New Zealand’s lichen genera and a new species for Aoteroa/New Zealand, a new journal - Perspectives in Biodiversity, an ode to Trilepidea adamsii, the NZPCN constitution rewrite and reregistration as an incorporated society, the most elusive plants and upcoming events.

Author: NZPCN; Jesse Bythell; Peter J. de Lange; Louise Webster; Jane Gosden;

Date: 17/12/2024

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for November 2024. Read about the discovery of a third mainland population of Abrodictyum caudatum, when native plants go rogue, news from the UNITEC Herbarium, a progress report on a revision of Aotearoa/New Zealand Coenogonium underway at UNITEC, the threat assessments of indigenous vascular plants and mushroom fungi in Otago, a wilding conifer survey, a request for seeds of Urtica sykesii and upcoming events.

Author: NZPCN; Marley Ford; Joseph Knight; Kate Orwin; Peter J. de Lange; Campbell J. James; Scott Jarvie; Thomas Carlin; Jacqui Knight;

Date: 26/11/2024

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for October 2024. Read the President’s 2024 annual report and read about the recent NZPCN conference held in Whangarei, the 2024 NZPCN awards recipients, the currently running Favourite Plant Vote, the documentary ‘Here the Wild Things Are’, myrtle rust management for practitioners, an update to the Aotearoa/New Zealand list of naturally uncommon ecosystems, a new book on Butterfies and Moths of Aotearoa/New Zealand and upcoming events.

Author: NZPCN; Jesse Bythell; Taylor Davies-Colley; Bill Campbell; Marley Ford; Gretchen Brownstein;

Date: 29/10/2024

Publication type: Newsletter

Description: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network e-newsletter for September 2024. Read about the upcoming NZPCN conference in Whangarei, new names for Karetu/Holy Grasses, NZPCN website taxonomy updates, additional environmental weed information to NZPCN website species pages, specific weed photos sought for iNaturalist, a new paper on karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus), a New Zealand species edit-a-thon at Otari-Wilton’s Bush, the conservation status of mosses in Aotearoa New Zealand being reviewed, the… More

Author: NZPCN; Taylor Davies-Colley; Bill Campbell; Marley Ford; Peter de Lange; Alex Fergus; Kate McAlpine; Heidi Meudt, Siobhan Leachman; Christine Richardson;

Date: 27/09/2024